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Achille Constant T. Emile Prisse D' Avennes
Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life on the Valley of the Nile. Illustrated from Designs Taken on the Spot ... with Descriptive Letter-Press by James Augustus St. John, London: James Madden, 1851. 2° (446 x 320mm.), dedication leaf, title with wood-engraved vignette, 27 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates after Prisse d' Avennes only. (Of 31, lacking portrait, first few plates waterstained at corners not affecting images, one plate torn at margin and repaired on verso, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary red half morocco gilt (extremities rubbed, scuffed and scratched). Second edition. cf. Abbey 1001; Blackmer 1357; Brunet IV, 885; Colas 2427; Hilmy II, 138; Lipperheide 1599.
Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, and Modes of Life on the Valley of the Nile. Illustrated from Designs Taken on the Spot ... with Descriptive Letter-Press by James Augustus St. John, London: James Madden, 1851. 2° (446 x 320mm.), dedication leaf, title with wood-engraved vignette, 27 hand-coloured tinted lithographed plates after Prisse d' Avennes only. (Of 31, lacking portrait, first few plates waterstained at corners not affecting images, one plate torn at margin and repaired on verso, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary red half morocco gilt (extremities rubbed, scuffed and scratched). Second edition. cf. Abbey 1001; Blackmer 1357; Brunet IV, 885; Colas 2427; Hilmy II, 138; Lipperheide 1599.
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